Create innovative, sustainable products and solutions, and foster a culture that empowers employees to operate safely, sustainably, and responsibly. Our commitment to ethics and integrity is a competitive advantage and a way to differentiate ourselves to our customers, partners, shareholders, and employees.
More Sustainable Products
Through the Rockwell Automation Design for Sustainability and Circularity (DfSC) Program, we are making our products more sustainable and ready to meet new standards and requirements such as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR).
The DfSC Scorecard is embedded in the Rockwell development process as part of our Quality team’s Design for Excellence Program.
The DfSC Scorecard guides product development engineers to consider the following aspects during product design:
- Life Cycle Thinking & Assessments: Apply life cycle thinking and life cycle assessments during product design to help reduce environmental impacts across the entire product life cycle.
- Energy Use & Efficiency: Utilize energy efficient design and operating modes to reduce product use phase emissions.
- Material Use & Efficiency: Select materials with lower environmental impacts and design for efficient material use.
- Repair, Refurbish, Upgrade: Optimize the opportunities for product repair, refurbishment, and upgrade to extend product longevity and reduce waste.
- Recyclability: Increase end-of-life recycling potential of products through intentional design and material selection.
DfSC Scorecard results complement Product Life Cycle Assessments on Rockwell products to provide a holistic view of our product environmental impacts.
Advancing circular packaging solutions
Every shipment we send is a chance to support the circular economy. In FY25, guided by our five-year sustainable packaging strategy, we continue to “right size” packaging, reducing the overall volume, and incorporating recycled and recyclable materials. This helps customers close the sustainability loop while lowering carbon emissions, landfill waste, and costs.
We also achieved our sustainable sourcing goal for paper and wood packaging by requiring suppliers to provide Sustainable Forestry Initiative or Forest Stewardship Council certifications, ensuring these materials come from responsibly managed forests. Additionally, we eliminated the use of mixed materials to improve the recyclability of our packaging.
Although most of our packaging already meets the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation adopted by the European Union, we continue to pursue enhancements, focusing on plastic packaging, labeling clarity, and Extended Producer Responsibility initiatives.
| CATEGORY | GOAL FOR FY26 | FY25 STATUS |
|---|---|---|
| Renewable Resources | All new product packaging made from sustainable/renewable resources to enable recycling by the end user | COMPLETE - All new packaging is from sustainable/renewable sources |
| Sustainable Forestry Certification | Source 100% of paper and wood packaging stocks from suppliers with sustainable forestry certifications | COMPLETE - 100% of suppliers provided certifications |
| Corrugated: Recycled Content | Recycled content to be 50% or higher | COMPLETE - All corrugated has up to 70% recycled content |
| Plastic: Recycled Content | Minimum 35% recycled content for bags | 10% of bags have 35% recycled content |
| 100% recycled content for thermoformed packaging | COMPLETE - All thermoforms have 100% recycled packaging | |
| Packaging Foam Reduction | Reduce annual weight of nonrecycled or recyclable packaging foams by 75% | COMPLETE - 75% reduction (198K annual lbs. reduced) |
| Returnable Supply Chain Packaging | Create returnable packaging where feasible for high volume parts, products, or customer orders | Evaluate legacy containerization strategy inbound to Rockwell Distribution Centers |
Advancing a responsible and resilient supply chain
At Rockwell, we believe that sustainability is a shared responsibility—one that extends across our entire supply network. Our diverse suppliers understand the importance of sustainable practices and recognize the mutual value they bring to our partnerships, our customers, our communities, and the planet.
In 2025, we deepened our commitment to building a more responsible supply chain by working directly with suppliers to verify compliance with evolving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards.
Our responsible sourcing campaigns continued to address critical issues such as Modern Slavery, Sustainability, Conflict Minerals, and Information Security. As an active member of the Responsible Minerals Initiative, we remain aligned with global efforts to promote ethical mineral sourcing and improve industry-wide practices.
A key focus in 2025 was preparing for the European Commission’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Product Regulation (ESPR). We engaged more than 500 suppliers in education and data-sharing initiatives, collecting lifecycle assessments and carbon footprint data to enhance our product sustainability metrics. We also expanded engagement with our Supplier Council—a cross-industry group that provides valuable insights and shares best practices. We continued to align our Supplier Code of Conduct with the Responsible Business Alliance’s Code of Conduct, while our Governance Council received additional investment to strengthen oversight and drive accountability.
Leading with social responsibility
Rockwell is committed to fostering a supply chain that is ethical, inclusive, and environmentally sound. We partner with organizations that share our values and expect all suppliers to actively manage and report on their social and environmental performance. To ensure ethical sourcing of minerals used in our hardware products, we maintained robust policies, compliance protocols, and internal controls throughout 2025.
As we look ahead, our focus remains on evolving our supply chain to meet the needs of our customers and the expectations of society— building a future that is more sustainable, responsible, and resilient.
Refining our safety program to drive continuous improvement globally
We continue to strive for zero work-related injuries and illnesses. In FY25, we exceeded our best-inclass Recordable Case Rate (RCR) goal of 0.27 at the corporate level, with a RCR of 0.24. Visits by 10 regulatory agencies at the country and local levels resulted in zero citations or fines, substantiating our commitment to environmental, health, and safety (EHS) excellence.
Safety is more than compliance—it’s how we show our people they matter. In FY25, we focused on enhancing standardization of our EHS program elements through improved data analysis and sharing best practices for employee health and safety to a greater extent across Rockwell manufacturing locations and field service groups worldwide.
Using data to drive continuous improvement opportunities was a key strategy. As our reporting and analysis have matured, we’re able to see trends at all levels, from department to regional as well as enterprise-wide. This visibility enabled us to focus efforts in specific EHS areas and apply solutions that include enhanced root-cause analysis, engineering controls, and education. It also provided evidence-based feedback on best practices we’re seeing in Rockwell facilities around the globe.
We strengthened our safety best practices teams around hand safety and ergonomics by expanding participation from our different regions. Through regular meetings and conversations, we share technical guidance and nuances in best practices and bring their vast experience and knowledge to bear on EHS challenges one or more facilities are experiencing.
We also continued to drive EHS program standardization and maturity through our own audits and assessments as well as third-party audits, certifications, and compliance efforts.
Culture
Our four culture principles are embedded into our enterprise-wide business objectives with executive compensation tied to the successful evolution of our culture. These principles describe the values that bring our vibrant culture to life.
- Strengthen our commitment to integrity, diversity, and inclusion
- Be willing to compare ourselves to the best alternatives
- Increase the speed of decision making
- Have a steady stream of fresh ideas
Employee Engagement
Our annual Global Voices Employee Engagement survey offers Rockwell meaningful input on how to improve our employees’ experience. In 2025, more than 21,800 employees (85% of the total employee population) completed the survey, and offered more than 32,000 written comments.
Our Strengths
Employees identified the following as some of the company’s strengths:
- My job is challenging and interesting
- My job makes good use of my skills and abilities
- I am encouraged to come up with better ways of doing things
- I can see a clear link between my work and Rockwell’s strategic objectives
Our ethics feedback consistently scored above the global benchmark.
Awards and Initiatives
Increasing recognitions, expanding initiatives
Recognized 17 times
Recognized 22 times
Joined May 2023
Joined December 2023
Founding Member, 2019
Recognition for modernizing smart water monitoring
Frost & Sullivan recognized Rockwell’s success in helping water utilities drive better water management with its 2024 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award. Through AI-powered water monitoring technologies and innovative digital solutions, we enable water utilities to optimize system efficiency, reduce leaks, and meet sustainability goals. The award recognizes the company with a stand-out approach to achieving top-line growth and a superior customer experience.
Find full report here: Frost & Sullivan 2024 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award
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Chairman and CEO, Blake Moret, speaks on The Future of Global Operations panel at the 2022 World Economic Forum (WEF)